even darker demon's japan already has one of the highest suicide rates in the world and following the disaster in march the government has issued a warning about a possible nationwide epidemic of depression here some organic farm us committed suicide because you know. it's so easy everything they know each other good soil for after many hours of hard work and it's just contaminated one night into so. far so i'm very sad to hear the news and many other farmers are also very much depressed a recent national survey in japan performed by dr roshini and his team shows that suicide rates in japan have been found increased in the months since the disaster compared to the same timeframe in the previous two years but the demographics are not what you might expect. rate increase.

but it is because some by both striving to. if they have not had to make suicide this disaster has certainly taken its toll on japan's economy and such constant reminders of an intense topic can harm the collective psyche of the people who live here as well because of the. tsunami disaster plus nuclear disaster many people actually lost their jobs or their working on the show has crashed. so. yeah they have a for many a good read on their comments causing japan's death toll to keep rising even though the initial disaster subsided months before in japan sean thomas forty. clean up out there stricken for him a nuclear plant has been. praised by the head of the u.n.

nuclear watchdog who said radiation could be contained by yours and you could monitor was visiting the facility to assess the progress in preventing the nuclear crisis from worsening fukushima reactors were heavily damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that caused the cores to melt and release dangerous amounts of radiation into the environment workers have since been trying to restore the cooling system and stop contaminated water from the reactors leaking into the sea but hiroshima based nuclear expert robert jacobs thinks the i.a.e.a. visit is a farce and the japanese government's still not doing enough to protect its people . in essence what this is is just just trying to give a nice shine to a terrible terrible situation and policy and not really in any way dealing with the actual problems that are facing us here and and least plants are still leaching radioactivity into the environment every day into the sea and through the steam of the combing into the air and what what's now preoccupied many people in japan is

that even for those of us that live far enough away that we thought we were not in any way threatened by the radiation from the plants we're now finding that because of insufficient oversight to the food supply and public health questions that radiation is turning up in all kinds of food products so you're finding now people in far away from fukushima areas are now beginning to realize that they're not going to be escaping the radiation because of that distance and additionally besides that there's still a rather chaotic policy about what will be happening in the areas that were contaminated near those plants but outside of the evacuation zone for example who she misty. nuclear energy expert robert jacobs in hiroshima explaining the situation in japan. we're going across the pacific now with lawmakers a loggerheads over how to pay for raising the u.s. debt ceiling president obama threatens to veto a rival republican plan congress has less than a week left to raise the country's multi trillion dollar debt ceiling if it hopes

to avoid potentially devastating default and nationwide address obama warned that an american default would impact the around the world and that washington would be to blame if we criticize republican opposition for stalling talks and refusing to accept a balanced approach republican house speaker john boehner hit back accusing obama of spending beyond the country's means and expecting a blank check the two parties have been locked in dispute over whether spending cuts or tax hikes is the best answer to the debt crisis and u.s. congressional candidate candidate dan o'connor thinks that the debate in both sides has ignored a key point. i think a lot of the politicians in d.c. and this is both republican and democratic politicians they continue to necked all to neglect the biggest tax and that's the inflation tax this is a perennial tax and it's not it's not politically. beneficial for them to him to mention this because they benefit from this tax because it's a hidden tax and they don't have to impose and they don't even have to vote on it and this is both democrats and republicans in d.c.

they allow the got the federal reserve to continue to print money constantly we saw the biggest printing spree in the history of the world in the past few years we see our cost of living skyrocketing we see the cost of gas skyrocketing costs of commodity skyrocketing skyrocketing but nobody in d.c. none of the politicians want to talk about this issue it's not only obama who should be shouldering the blame i think everyone in d.c. should be shouldering the blame for this more so even the even the republican party because they they want to lot of the elections last year on the platform of cutting of cutting spending and they haven't really done anything anything significant and they haven't offered any sort of significant cuts especially on the issues of defense which they're never willing to cut on what the politicians in d.c. in d.c. the republican democrat and democrats they just support one of the biggest bailouts in history in american history and they're getting away with it and the american people have essentially forgotten about the bailouts but this is a complete transfer of wealth from the government from the hands of the government

into the large corporations and the banks and they've essentially gotten away with it no. r t financial analyst max kaiser thinks he's located the source of the u.s. money worries here's a preview of what's coming up later this hour. these are financial hole the grounds that exist only in the figment taishan of psych katic central bankers like ben bernanke who are off their meds. once we get take anti-psychotic and we see the true nature of a ben bernanke i fully expect sam to run naked around ron paul swinging a tambourine and singing some old carpenter's song. while having his entire body waxed by a dominate tricks that's pretty much all we can look forward to what is next congressional testimony.

ratings giant moody's is warning powerhouses germany and france that their bellowed of greece could see their own credit ratings downgraded this after greece's score dropped just above default last week financial analysts found be able to massey thinks that the banks are the only winners from the greek bailout. we risk using greece we were rescuing ireland we were rescuing maybe italy or spain someday but the truth is we risk your german or french or british banks hold the debts against these countries and basically if you want to bring the holes in the old and. consolidate public plan this is going to have you have to tax wealthy people you have to tax. the banks who have. benefited and who have caused the crisis basically this the threat that we will loose

a lot of taxpayers' money because. we could really experiencing and european union this is not working so far. still to come this hour he's under threat we discover whether the plans of palestinians to declare an independent state could force israel to scrap a key agreement plus. a top north korean diplomat invited for a rare talks in the u.s. we ask it'll whether it will revive long stalled negotiations on scrapping pyongyang's controversial nuclear program. first though kosovo scented special forces to the serb populated north after a tit for tat trade ban caused tensions to flare up police seize control of one of the border crossings while the other two were being blocked by local serbs kosovo's move has been widely condemned by the un any you among others and it's feared it will stoke ethnic anger kosovo proclaimed independence in two thousand and eight when you know laterally split from serbia some six hundred thousand serbs still live in the region but refused to recognize kosovo and sovereignty kosovo's

independence has been a bone of contention between serbia and the e.u. which is pressing belgrade to recognize kosovo before it become a member balkans expert marco gas which tells r.t. the real one is pulling the strings maybe further abroad. you should bear in mind that the. union leaders couldn't have done nothing without the ok from the us said me. and we know that the u.s. has got a massive investment in kosovo it's got the biggest military base in the world in can bomb still smack bang in the heart of course of all and so everything that. gets up to is also rise by washington in the first place having said that the poverty in kosovo over for all peoples albanians as well as serbians is so huge that their suffering already under this combined washington regime which has brought them nothing but poverty and pain and really has done nothing for the region but bring organ harvesting and pain and quality to everybody in this region

so that kosovo is a failed state a fake state of mistaken experiments and this kind of expansionism of failure. ethnic albanian leadership have produced for the world should not be encouraged by the world we should all oppose this we know who can stop it and it is time that the u.s. administration stopped its extremist puppets in prishtina from even further expanding into. recognized territorial area. a senior north korean diplomat says he's optimistic his nation's ties with the u.s. will improve this as he arrived for key talks in new york on pyongyang's controversial nuclear program last friday top nuclear on a voyage from north and south korea got together for the first time in more than two years during a security summit in. there they agreed to return to six party talks as soon as possible negotiations broke down after north korea's deadly shelling of an island belonging to the south and claymores response to a provocative military drills the u.s. says the north must dismantle its nuclear facilities before any deal can be reached

here on leave from the campaign to end the korean war tells our team that the u.s. will do what it can to maintain regional influence. the u.s. military needs justification to maintain its troops in the ninety's danger region so that it can pursue its real interest which is to contain china's expansion of power in the region and also to continue to sell its weapons systems and demonizing north korea as an axis of evil country and the new provides that kind of justification the u.s. has been trying to strengthen its alliance with south korea and japan it's increasingly turning exercises in the region building missiles that defense systems and extra good inexplicably linking south korea and japan and systems with it. but the reality is north korea does not provide a threat to south korea or the u.s. and the reality also is that the u.s. and south korea are facing an economic crisis where their tax dollars can be better spent on rebuilding their domestic economy and provocative war games that have

already cost us lives on the korean peninsula last year there is one thing that distinguishes north korea from other nuclear weapons states in the world and that is that it is the only country that has said that it's willing to give them up in exchange for a guarantee that the u.s. will not attack it and north korea has been very consistent it has said that everything is on the table as long as the u.s. is the fear but it has to be a process. mutual disarmament you can't realistically expect north korea to simply give up its only deterrence capability unless the u.s. is also willing to take steps and to its provocative war games that simulate the collapse of the north korean regime is a good start and israel the country's president has denied reports little scrap all previous agreements with palestinians if they continue to pursue state recognition from the un general assembly in september israel's foreign minister had earlier threatened to back pedal on the ninety ninety three oslo peace accord that gave

a green light to forming the palestinian autonomy meanwhile more than one hundred countries have vowed to support the recognition of a palestinian state at the u.n. political writer and blogger emily hauser says any israeli threat may be self-defeating. this is an internationally recognized bilateral agreement it's not israel breaking up with her boyfriend you can't just cancel something this is there's not. a mind trick that can be done oh this accord was never there however having said that what it will achieve is very little it will it will only make its own position more isolated more difficult to negotiate out of it's kind of odd to me that israelis and the israeli government refuse to acknowledge the ways in which we and i say we because i'm israeli american the ways in which we have violated the agreement from i mean the end can hardly gone dry we have not once stopped building in the territories we have not once top adding israelis there and building bypass

roads so is violence breaking the agreement yes but so are building settlements so are running bombing raids and running raids into the centers of town you know that we israel has continued with military incursions into areas that were supposed to be entirely under palestinian security control from the very beginning so yes both sides have broken the accords time and again but israel for israel to pretend that they have not is. just gross dishonesty jane out of some other stories making headlines across the globe a moroccan military aircraft carrying eighty one people aboard has crashed in the country's south state t.v. says seventy eight people were killed three severely injured when the hercules transport went down in mountains north of the border with western sahara bad weather and low visibility are thought to have caused the crash. violent clashes in afghanistan's helmand province of killed twenty four people most of them insurgents fighting broke out between taliban nato and local forces as militants tried to

regain territory lost to the u.s. led coalition parts of helmand have seen a rise in violence after security control was handed over to local forces earlier this month. the lawyer for anders breivik the confessed attacker says his client is insane but that it's too soon to establish a defense the thirty two year old norwegians already been charged in court with terrorism but may yet face charges of crimes against humanity noise police have now named some of the seventy six victims of last friday's two attacks the bombing of government buildings in central australia and a massacre at an island youth camp devastated the nation around one hundred fifty thousand people gathered in the capital to pay tribute to the victims. and a little later in our debate show cross talk they tackle some of the issues raised in the norway attacks. on the right of it but it's the exception that proves the rule the automatic assumption was that it was muslim terrorism because that is the

no one for our present. you know this nice term to think i think is complete but mostly me i don't believe they exist is something that historically i'm an english nationalist a fervent english nationalist and i know the groups that are involved with english nationalism of this knights templar to me is a complete fabrication so i don't believe these goats any legs to toe with any english nationalists. the because they know. did you want to jump in there before we go to the break. i mean what stephen fails to recognize and this is problematic is since nine eleven there has been a concerted and well organized orchestrated campaign from neo conservative islamophobia. groups think tanks input training anything that happens in the world as you know it's the fall of islam it's the fall of muslims etc etc that's why you had when this horrific act took place that's why you have experts one after the

other coming in and saying things like all of this has all the hallmarks of al qaeda. agreement appears no closer between the u.s. and russia and developing a missile defense system for europe despite further talks in washington tuesday nato says the system is designed to protect the european cart even from countries like iran russia fears the project is aimed at its military and is offering alternatives the u.s. is going ahead with the despite objections from the kremlin russia's envoy to nato says i was at today's talks afterwards he told r.t. that washington needs to overcome divisions. there are questions that remain unanswered if missile threats against europe come from the south why is the us policing part of its military infrastructure in the north close to russia's borders

this is the question that we can't get an answer to when we ask for legal guarantees that the system is not aimed at russia we're told there's a big conflict between republicans and democrats in congress and they start to explain that conflict but we're not interested in that what's important for us is that the u.s. is behind this project and they should provide security for all partners russia is very flexible if for some fabricated political reasons. projected our suggestion to integrate our means of anti missile defense then there's another scheme that could be cooperation between two independent systems if nato wants to defend itself that's no problem but if russia wants to provide its own security so be it otherwise it's like when you come home and discover somebody else's bodyguard sitting in your bedroom he's been sent to provide your security who's going to like that so if all our suggestions are rejected and it's understood that iran is just a reason to have the plan while russia's nuclear potential is the real target then

russia will come up with its own military response which nobody is going to like the. next legendary queen guitarist and songwriter brian may he speaks with artie sophie shevardnadze about his life with the stars not only alongside front man freddie mercury but also in his other life as an astrophysicist that's coming up after the break stay with us.

it's great to have you with us today sir thank you so recently i was going through the glass bead game of passage and he writes about music and what he says about music is that except it's art form it's also true power over nations and human souls and then many people say that exactly why music is compared to exact sciences like math. so i never really got that because i finished kind of conservatory and i always failed my math class now you as a man of music and science can't tell me how music is related with science or exact science like math for example it's a hard question. obviously there are mathematical things in music but

ironically i think the most important things in music are the instinctive things so i don't know quite how that works out except maybe it gives you a balance but yes i love pure science and i love music and they're not the same sure but. certainly throughout history there has been connections and people who were immersed in both of them you know from being. out to sea to. patrick moore you know. it seems to be that we maybe it's an obstruction thing maybe people who like these things don't like the clutter of the world but the complications of the world that we live in you know the pieces of stuff they just like to find very essence of life so maybe pure science is in some way closed to be a sense of nature and music it's close to the pure essence of human being to believe in god there's a man called richard dawkins there who is a very strong atheist and i had a little kind of argument with him in a hundred minutes because he he kind of i think he felt that he proved there was no

good and my feeling is that it's not a very scientific attitude because if you if you make a pronouncement you have to have evidence if you say there is no good where is the evidence there is no good you've spoken about the loneliness that you experienced after each performance. and so i know because i've spoken to a couple of astronauts and been to the moon for the past three days and they also speak of that fast loneliness that they experience when they're out there in space . say send music in your opinion give you that comfort of loneliness. you know maybe they do for a moment you know maybe ironically you can maybe that's what makes you more aware of loneliness because you claim it's content it's wonderful togetherness we people are with the universe and then the reality is you lose it so maybe that's why many of us when we feel lonely i do feel

a lot of loneliness obviously when you think queen and see you playing next to freddie mercury all those great hits come to my mind and then i understand that when you reach that level of success with someone you definitely have a special law and you form a special bond and i've heard you in another interview say that you still see freddie in a strange way can you elaborate on that. it's like a family member and you lose them but you don't quite understand because you take them with me and we were so long together that. you get that closeness with somebody particularly in a creative environment i don't think famous anything to do with it or even success but in the creative environment you learn to to know what somebody else might be thinking you might not always be right but you have a feeling for that you know so i still feel that and roger does as well and particularly it applies more if we're working as queen in this or you know and we think what would freddie say and you would be he would say this. you know he's part

of the creative process because he's part of what we are. because we really chiseled this thing out all together me and pretty and roger have you spoken to some of the brilliant brains our times for the past three days what do you think what you think could be or is high priest of the twenty first century the high priest of the twenty first century boy oh boy oh boy. maybe nelson mandela. because he has a very important key i think apart from wisdom and knowledge. he has the key of forgiveness which i think saved his country completely from a bloodbath and i think if all the people who run this planet studied under nelson mandela then we would definitely get a better planet and i think that would be more than anyone else i think he has the

key primate thank you very much for this interview him. i've. managed. to keep. my. mum.

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six thirty am in moscow the headlines deadly aftershocks of suicide rates in japan the so or as survivors struggle to come to terms with the devastating earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands this is the un's atomic watchdog says radiation at the stricken fukushima plant could be contained within months. in the u.s. president obama threatens to veto a rival republican plan to fund a debt ceiling increase an agreement has to be reached within a week to avoid the u.s. defaulting on its loan. tension rises in kosovo

as police and ethnic serbs face off at several border checkpoints over a tit for tat trade ban the u.n. any use a pristine as heavy handed approach could stoke ethnic hatred in the republic. kaiser report coming up next stay with us here on r.t. . guys are. this is the kind of the report are you psychotic. well. statistically one of you should be psychotic if you look at this first headline max an unprecedented one in sixty six americans is a diagnosed psychotic outselling even common drugs to treat high blood pressure and acid reflux anti-psychotic medications are the single top selling prescription drug

and the united states and they have quite nice names like zyprexa sarah quel abilify. this is part of the campaign to breed more goldman sachs bankers because psychosis means that you lack empathy and you need to be completely devoid of empathy to do your job effectively at goldman stripping corporations and disenfranchising the population and doing trade without any thought whatsoever about your actions what they might have on the effects of society at large their breeding psycho's the other way they've been able to do this is similar to what you see with the economy because economics of course is also a soft science and what's happened here is pharmaceutical lobbyist and companies have been targeting psychiatry asst in order to sell more of this product and the reason why they've gone to a psychiatrist is because this is a a.